Salt Dough Recipe(Baked and No Baked Salt Dough)

The result may vary depends on the way you knead the dough or set the oven temperature but keep trying if you are not satisfy with your result at first attempt.

No baked dough would be a sure success one but of course will take longer drying time.

Time: 10 minutes

Tools & Materials

Measuring cup

Bowl

Cling wrap

Baking paper

Oven

Rolling Pin

Cookies cutter

1 cup (250 ml) plain flour

1 cup (250 ml) table salt

1 cup (250 ml) boiled water

a small drop of cooking oil

How to make salt dough?

Mix flour and salt in a bowl.

Make a hole in the center and pour in boiled water little by little (use glove to protect your hands or spoon to mix the flour if the water is too hot).

Mix the flour, salt and water, add water as necessary until it's not crumbly.

Knead the dough about 5 minutes until it's smooth.

Add the cooking oil to make the dough soft, pliable and smoother.

Put some of the dough on the baking paper, use your rolling pin and use your cookie cutter to make various shapes for hanging decorations or napkin rings. You can also mold the dough to make figurines or sculptures.

Turn on the oven to 325 degree Fahrenheit or about 160 degree Celsius, bake the object you made as above for about 1 hour (or less depends on the size & quantity) or until it's hard.

Wrap the rest of the dough with cling wrap and store in a fridge.

No Baked Salt Dough

I made salt dough leaf pendant with this recipe recently but without baking. It looks good though :)

Here is my pendant:

We've also received requests from our web visitors to make a tutorial for rose salt dough without baking.

Many of them had a problem to keep the petals in place. It seems okay when the dough wet but crumbly when it's dried.

But, we don't have a problem at all when making the rose with our salt dough recipe. Click on the picture or link below to see our tutorial.